Corpus and Digital Library of TextGrid

The TextGrid Repository offers an extensive searchable and adaptable corpus of XML/TEI encoded texts and images. Amongst the continuously growing corpus is the Digital Library of TextGrid, which consists of works of more than 600 authors of German fiction (prose, verse and drama), as well as nonfiction from the beginning of the printing press to the early 20th century. The files are saved in different output formats (XML, ePub, PDF), published and made searchable. Different tools e.g. viewing or quantitative text-analysis tools can be used for visualization or to further research the text.

You can search within the corpus by entering a search term; alternatively “Explore” will lead you to predefined categories (e.g. “author”, “genre”).

The search function supports the query language Lucene; in addition to the free text search it allows queries with the following pattern: